Bon Odori

Last night I went to Bon Odori following my club, Taekwon-do. I reach the school at 4.15pm and the bus takes off at 4.40pm something. My club order 3 buses and bring other non member and senior to the festival.

As one of the AJK, I handle a bus with 43 members. Hop on the bus, give announcement, remain them to take care themselves, give them our teacher’s phone number and many many more. Then finally I can sit down and chat with Lee Ping.

After a little jam, we finally reach the stadium. Actually this is not my first time to Bon Odori. I use to go to Bon Odori once when I was little. I go with my mom and cousin and you know with parents….. many things you can’t do and can’t play freely.

So back to this time Bon Odori, I take my mom advise go to hunt for food first. So I and Lee Ping go to hunt for foooooood!!!! First we try the Japan ice-cream then the 章鱼烧. We oso eat SOBA my favorite food and onigiri. Wahhhhhh!!!! OISI!!!!! They all are really really very very nice.

The stage is in the middle of the field and there are drums on it. Ya, before that we get beautiful paper fan at the enterers. Then we find a place to sit and try our food. Then Sue Yin finally reaches and joins us. Then we continue our window shopping and look around.

Stage at morning

Stage at night

Paper Fan

There are many people wearing Yukata 浴衣, children, woman and man. Yaaaaa, tell you guys I saw a man about 20 something wearing the yukata with short that kind are dam HANDSOME. Waaaaaa!!!!!!!

I wish I can take his photo~ Wa~ handsome ah!!! Then about 7pm the drum performance started. After that the dance starts. Three of us dance for 2 round then Lee Ping suggest us to take photo with those Japanese that wear yukata.

Since I’m the only one among us can speak Japan language so I’m the one who ask them to take photo with us. Hahaha…my Japan language can finally be use.

Then something unexpected happen. The Japanese praise my Japan language is so GOOD…..Waaaaaaaa!!!!! Really? Oh, I’m so HAPPY. I can’t believe that.

Then we continue walk around. Then Lee Ping went home and I and Sue Yin walk around. Then with a 冲动 I want to drink BEER. But the all foods are finish sold. So we try our luck and went to the beer corner.

Lucky for us there are 3 more can left we then take out our money. In the mean while a college looks student take the last 2 cans. I then argue with him. Then I grab the one of the can from the uncle who sells the beer and 塞 the money in the uncle hand.

“I had pay and this is my.”

With my 战利品 we walk happily away. Can you imagine the face on the student? All I want to say is 爽!!!!Then we enjoy our beer and take some photo. The conclusion is 抢回来的东西果然比较好.Hahahaha!!!!!!


Japan Beer

We went home at 9.30pm. Bon Oderi is actually nothing special but I really happy with and gain many Experian that I never had before. Hope that next year I can come again.

Jupiter from the Planets Suite by Gustav Holst

I think I love the music of “Jupiter from the Planets Suite” by Gustav Holst which plays by Kazuki On The Final Selection more the “Ave Marie” after listen to the whole music at Youtube.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7JWjJsfASmg

La Corda D’oro Primo Passo

This is one of the special anime I watch from Animax. I’m regret because I had missed episode 21, 22, 23 & 24.

Characters
Hino Kahoko 日野 香惠子 Violin
Tsukimori Len 月森 莲 Violin
Tsuchiura Ryoutaro 土浦 梁太郎 Piano
Hihara Kazuki 火原 和树 Trumpet
Yunoki Azuma 柚木 梓馬 Flute
Shimizu Keiichi 志水 桂一 Cello
Fuyumi Shouko 冬海 笙子 Clarinet
Kanazawa Hiroto 金澤 紘人 Sing
Ousaki Shinobu 王崎 信武 Violin

More information about the character can go to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/La_Corda_D%27Oro

The boys’ characters are all very handsome and good. I can’t tell which is my favorite. Anyway, I like them all. The favorite’s music in anime is “Ave Maria” which always plays by Hino

• Opening Theme - "Brand New Breeze" by Kanon
• Ending Theme - "Crescendo" by Stella Quintet
Music Played On The First Selection
• Theme: Opening Up
• Kahoko: Tristesse (from Étude No. 3 - Opus 10-3) by Frédéric Chopin
• Kazuki: Unter dem Doppel Adler (Under The Double Eagle) by Josef Franz Wagner
• Keiichi: Cello Concerto No. 9 in B Flat Major (G.482) by Luigi Boccherini
• Azuma: Morning Mood by Edvard Hagerup Grieg
• Shouko: Romance in G Major by Johann Baptist Joseph Maximilian Reger
• Len: Polonaise Brillante No. 1 in D Major (for violin and orchestra - Opus 4) by Henryk Wieniawski
Music Played On The Second Selection
• Theme: Something to Believe In
• Kahoko: Canon in D Major by Johann Pachelbel
• Ryotaro: Fantasie-Impromptu by Frédéric Chopin
• Kazuki: Auf Flügen des Gesanges (On Wings of Song) by Jakob Ludwig Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy
• Keiichi: Le Cygne by Charles Camille Saint-Saëns
• Azuma: Meditation from Thaïs by Jules Massenet
• Shouko: Romance by Charles Camille Saint-Saëns
• Len: Vitali's "Chaconne"
Music Played On The Third Selection
• Theme: Irreplaceable Parts
• Kahoko: Mélodie by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
• Ryotaro: The Revolutionary Étude by Frédéric Chopin
• Kazuki: Serenade by Franz Schubert
• Keiichi: Sicilienne by Gabriel Fauré
• Azuma: Partita in A Major by Johann Sebastian Bach
• Shouko: Three Romances No. 2 by Robert Schumann
• Len: Tzigane by Maurice Ravel
Music Played On The Final Selection
• Theme: Setting Free
• Kahoko: Ave Maria by Schubert
• Ryotaro: La Campanella by Franz Liszt
• Kazuki: Jupiter from the Planets Suite by Gustav Holst
• Keiichi: Prelude from Suites for Solo Cello No. 1 by Johann Sebastian Bach
• Azuma: Vocalise by Sergei Vasilyevich Rachmaninov
• Shouko: A Polkish Folk Song, the Clarinet Polka
• Len: Caprice No. 24 by Niccolò Paganini
Music Played On The Special Episode - Episode 26
• Kahoko: Opus 12 Salut d'Amour by E. Elgar (accompanied by Shouko)
• Ryotaro: S.541 Liebestraume (Dreams of Love) No. 3 in A Flat Major by Franz Liszt
• Kazuki and Kahoko: Gavotte in D Major by F.J Gossec
• Keiichi: Prelude from Suites for Solo Cello No. 1 by Johann Sebastian Bach
• Azuma: Notturno d'Amour (Serenade) by R. Drigo
• Len: Opus 50, Romance No. 2 in F Major by Beethoven

My First Breaking

Yesterday during my Taekwon-do training is my first time I break the wood using hand knife and kicking. At the beginning, I was really afraid to do so because the wood is very thick.

In my club, girls never do this breaking before because this is boys’ job. So yesterday, my president asks me and my partner, Cecilia to give it a try.

Haha…finally I can give it a try. I have waiting for this opportunity since I’m form one.

So “Caaaaaaa!!!!”

That day I break 6 woods and Cecilia break 5. For me, 2 woods for kicking and 4 woods for hand knife. I think fall in love with the moment you break the wood.

So in a day, all the wood in the club had been finish break by us AJK (3 boys and 2 girls include me, there are about 20 woods we had break). Look at those broken wood, my president just have a sigh and say need to spend more money to buy those wood again.

Now guess what’s the side effect?

After the training my right hand had swelling and extravasated blood. So the conclusion is I must break more wood to overcome this side effect.

Hahahaha….

“Ba Zang”粽子

Last week, I went back to my kampung at Bentong, Pahang because it is 端午节.

Everything went normal but this is the first time I saw my grandmother how to boil those “ba zang”. Here are a few pictures I take using my dad phone.




What can I say…very special right? Now a day still got people use stick to cook. You ask me the taste? Not bad just a bit tasteless. Too little salt and more will be better.

I’m a Bird

I thought I’m a bird that lives as a pet stay in the cage for my whole live. I got food, water and everything I need. I got nothing to worry in my life.

I’m naïve and pure. I know nothing about the world and not any thing about the blue sky because those are unnecessary for me who live in the cage. I think…I’m satisfied and nothing to complaint.

My master treads me well and all I need to do is sing for her. I think I had tried my best to sing the best I can but the bird beside my cage can sing better then me. My master focus on that bird and always neglect my exists.

I become lonely although I still get my necessaries of life. I finally realize that there is something missing from my life. What is it?

I finally find it out when I meet the other birds. They are not the kind of bird like me which tread as a pet and keep in the cage, they are wild. I saw their smile. The smile that never appear on my face.

Ya…I finally know that I wish to be free. Away from the cage, flying in the blue sky and around the world. I want my freedom. But thing never as yours wishes. My master never let me leave my cage.

There are once my friends relies me from the cage. That is the first time I saw the beauty of the blue sky and how wide is the world. I’m revel in it. Happy life never less long, I was caught and back to the cage again.

Start from then, my master never treads me well. I miss the life outside the cage. I always struggle and dream to get out the cage but get crueler treatment as return from my master.

I know I must not give up. I must leave this cage. There are still many things I never learn and never seen. Although I’m now full of wound but I’ll never give up. I’m going to leave this cool and icy cage as fast as I can.

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Life is meaningless?

Today Becca ask me what I want to be when I grow up. Har? Well maybe something related to Bio or Chemistry such as ……cosmetics industry?

Becca said she was interested to become a nurse while Tifa said she hasn’t decided yet. Yap, this can be considering as still a long time for us to make a decision. You can decide it after Form 5 or 6.

At night, I watch an anime at animax --- La Corda D’oro Primo Passo, you can also call it The Golden String or Kin’iro no Corda. It is about a music academy, a girl with great talent had been discovering by a spirit and ‘force’ her to enter the school music competition.


La Corda D'oro Primo Passo / The Golden String / Kin'iro no Cardo

All of the characters in the anime have great talent in different instrument. These remind me one of my friends --- Wilson. He found his talent last year, which is dancing. Recently, he won the competitions, which held at Taylor College. He now spends all of his mind and heart in it. I admire him because I can’t found my talent.

What am I good at?

I’m no good in sports or academic… I even donno what I like. Spending hours and days at comic and anime then when I’m back to the world, nothing I have gain.

These remind me the poem we read in Form 1,The Life Breath Candle. Life is meaningless. What are we living for?

A friend of my class said this in the morning:” As a sin, why we need to do so many essay? (He didn’t finish his homework) As a sin, why we need to take exam? (Exam is around the corner)

Why? Why? Why?

Why are we going to do all of this? What is it for? Even for those who work hard to gain something, who knows the next second you are involved in an accident, then you DIE. You get NOTHING!!!

Just felt that life is meaningless, aimless, hollow and nothing else…

Victory For Green House Marching

Today is our school sport day and guess what? We need to gather at school at 5.00a.m. which mean I need to wake up at 4 (cry~ I want to sleep sleep la!!!) Why soooo early and there was heavy rain. Sunday + early morning + heavy rain = cold day + good sleep. I suppose to hide in the bed and have a nice sleep but it was all destroyed by the sport day.

Actually yesterday last training, we green house marching had a small disturbance. I was still worrying will this affect today performance. This disturbance didn’t affect us but raise our semangat! I’m so glad…

Our senior let us watch the video after the marching. What can I say?

Fo-you ~ GOOD!!!

It was hundred times better then our usual training especially the hormat that part so neat and so YENG!!!

Our seniors then ask us how can we do so. Our reply is “ Because something inside tell us that is it the time.” …ZA DOU!!!

Anyway, another year Victory For Green House Marching!!! This is the 4th continuous years we get the first place. We then run half round of the field (Only form 4 member because form 5 are ‘old’ liao).

So glad that we get victory again hope that next year we can also the 1st place again. Then 5 years continuous for victory.

Having “Qing Ming” at my Kampong – Bentong

Today is “Qing Ming” but many had already come to clean their ancient’s tomb last weekend. SO it seem a bit quiet and desolate clear this year.

Actually for me “Qing Ming” = to picnic. Emm… for every modern people right? Because when we get up the hill where the tomb is, there has many delicious food such as ‘bazang’, ‘pau’ and fruits. The most important is… many candles to eat…just kidding!!!
There got good view.

My cousin and me will take this opportunity gather and talk idly. When our parents finish putting the food and light up the candle, we then bow 3 times and it’s over.

For my family, we have 3 round to go.1st round is the good view up at the hill (this cost us to wake up at 5a.m.); 2nd is at the same hill but at the bottom; lastly is my grandfather’s tomb which we need to take 5 minute car drive (the first 2 can just walk to reach) and bring so many water and brush to wash clean up the tomb.

I want to take a few photos but I forget to bring my phone. After thinking, it seems like this location is not that suitable for taking picture. (Swt, I don’t want to any see strange things appear on the photo – got extra hand on your shoulder?)

Any way, this year’s “Qing Ming” is not that fun because less firework and people. Hope that next year this situation won’t happen again. Hope for many firework, many people, and many food…and candles…(^_^)

Actually I Can't Make A Fast Decision

Actually I’m the kind of people who always say words opposite to my heart. SO I normally will not promises someone requires at the first time, that guy had to ask me a few more time then I will give him/her the answer from the bottom of my heart.

Not because I’m arrogant but I just can’t make a decision. I have to think whether I can really carry it out or not…but this normal end up other taught that I say NO to them.

I DON’T MEAN THAT!

Not only my friends but also same as my family. Example just now my parents ask me whether I want to have dinner with them at outside. Emm…. First it was raining; second I’m not really that hungry yet; third they haven’t decided what to eat…so should I go with them?

They ask me for twice but I can’t actually give them an actual answer. Just as I’m hesitating, they take the answer as NO and left me at home. I try to catch up with them but when I went to the car park the car had already gone (I live at condo).

SO I end up with no dinner and alone at home…

OMG, I can hear the strange sound coming out from my stomach. (I’m HUNGRY!)

SO make sure next time if you want an answer from me, please ask me a few more times and give me some time to make my decision.

wAndeRing My CryiNg soul,
oNly you CAn wIpe awAy my tEars,
teArs fall, VanIsh to tHe light.